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(No'ModeL) O. H. GARRIGUS GARMENT HANGER.

No. 595,564. Patent-ed Dec; 14,1897.

fiarajfl arrz ylgdr UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

CHARLES H. GARRIGUS, OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO MATILDA O. GARRIGUS, OF SAME PLACE.

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 595,564, dated December 14, 1897.

Application filed $eptember 20, 1897. Serial No. 652,331. (No model.)

and has for its object to provide an inexpen sive and durable hanger adapted to be readily applied to a coat, cloak, mackintosh, or other garment without the employment of extraneous fastening means, such as sewing or the like, for the purpose of engaging a hook or nail to suspend the garment and provided with means for relieving the strain caused by the weight of the garment when hung up, and

thus prevent the cloth from being torn or the hanger from being ripped out.

To these ends my invention consists in the improved hanger constructed and arranged in the manner hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims following the description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, wherein is illustrated a perspective View of my improved hanger.

' Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 indicates a chain or other flexible connection which constitutes the engaging portion of the device, adapted to be hung over a hook, nail, or the like. Attached to each end of the chain 1 is a coiled spring 2, said chain betheir opposite ends are bent up at approXi-- mately right angles, as at 5, and are then bent laterally outward and inward to form loops or bends 6, and are finally bent at right angles to the loops or bends 6 to form an eye 7, to which is attached the end of the corresponding coiled spring 2.

To attach the hanger to a garment, it is merely necessary. to insert the pins in the cloth. For example, in applying the device to a coat the pins are inserted in the cloth forming the inner side of the collar, the pins being firmly forced into place until the angular portions 5 prevent their further insertion. When in this position, the bends 0r loops 6 lie closely against the surface of the cloth and prevent it from wrinkling or puckering up at the point where the strain occurs when the garment is hung up. Said bends or loops also aid in holding the pins in place as the angularportions 5 of the pins pass through the cloth from one side to the other, the cloth being confined thereon by the shanks 4. on one side and by the said bends or loops on the other.

To hang the garment up, the chain 1 is slipped over the hook or nail in the usual manner. In thus hanging up the garment a sudden jerk or pull is frequently unintentionally given to the garment and often either tears out the usual strap or tab employed for the purpose or rips or tears the latter loose from the garment. This is avoided by my improved hanger, the strain being relieved or compensated for bythe yielding coiled springs interposed between the ends of the chain and the attaching devices.

The improved hanger can be manufactured at slight cost and is practically indestructible, and being easily detached may be quickly removed from a worn-out or cast-off garment and applied to a new one.

The hanger is readily attached without the aid of tools or implements and without the aid of a workman or skilled laborer.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim 'is-=- I v 1. In a garment-hanger, the combination with the chain 1, of two coiled springs 2 attached at their inner ends to'the ends of the chain, and double-pointed pins 3 provided with eyes 7, the outer ends of said coiled springs being fastened to said eyes, substantially as described.

2. In a garment-hanger, the combination In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

with two pins each consisting of two parallel pointed shanks i having angular portions 5 and lateral bends or loops 6 and eye 7 formed parallel to said shanks, of a flexible and lon- I CHARLES H. GARRIGUS.

5 gitudinally yielding connection attached at its opposite ends to said eyes, substantially as described.

Witnesses:

NATHAN T. PUsEY, ROBERT P. MITCHELL. 

